Predicting Obama's October surprise

[_Bob Loblaw]

October Surprise? Obama secret Iran deal cut - Look for announcement of temporary halt to uranium enrichment

I might give this some credence, but there's a single, unnamed source within the Iranian government with absolutely zero corroboration. I can't imagine anyone in the Iranian government making something up to discredit our government. They wouldn't do that, would they? And given WND's track record as the National Enquirer of the right, I'm quite skeptical.

[_Bret Ripley]

The Romney temple video?

No effect. Too boring

The dickens you say.

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No effect. Too boring

The dickens you say.

Dickens is boring too.

[_Bob Loblaw]

Dickens is boring too.

Blasphemy! I love Dickens, even though I understand why Evelyn Waugh believed endless reading of Dickens to be the definition of hell.

[_bcspace]

October Surprise? Obama secret Iran deal cut - Look for announcement of temporary halt to uranium enrichment

I might give this some credence, but there's a single, unnamed source within the Iranian government with absolutely zero corroboration.

But you didn't seem to notice the feeler put out by Clinton herself and recall that she has Huma Abedin, a woman with radical Islamist ties, whispering in her ear.

[_Bob Loblaw]

But you didn't seem to notice the feeler put out by Clinton herself and recall that she has Huma Abedin, a woman with radical Islamist ties, whispering in her ear.

What feelers? She said what has been US policy for years: sanctions would be lifted if Iran met its obligations regarding nuclear enrichment. That is the whole point of sanctions.

As for Huma Abedin, seriously? Just when I thought I could sort of take you seriously.

[Tator]

I think the October surprise will be a bunch of ads with clips from the debate, showing the contrast between what Romney said then and what he said previously in his campaign.

That is the Democratic mantra: he's changed his positions. That it's not true is beside the point.

It is true. His campaign has had to retract some of the things he's said. Remember when he said he wouldn't dismantle ALL of Obamacare? Then his campaign clarified that statement? On Sixty Minutes, Mitt referred to the emergency room as an example of how we already provide health care for the poor. Yet, previously he had used the ER as an example of poor health care decisions. In the debate, he again acted like there were provisions of ACA that he would preserve.

Actually, he called serving the poor in ERs "socialism" in an interview with Glenn Beck in 2007.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics ... e-eyebrows

[_bcspace]

What feelers? She said what has been US policy for years: sanctions would be lifted if Iran met its obligations regarding nuclear enrichment. That is the whole point of sanctions.

Duh. Which means you should give credence to the rumor. Obama is desperate for anything now.

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Dickens is boring too.

Blasphemy! I love Dickens, even though I understand why Evelyn Waugh believed endless reading of Dickens to be the definition of hell.

I am quite erudite. But I wouldn't inflict Dickens on anyone.

[_Bob Loblaw]

It is true. His campaign has had to retract some of the things he's said. Remember when he said he wouldn't dismantle ALL of Obamacare? Then his campaign clarified that statement? On Sixty Minutes, Mitt referred to the emergency room as an example of how we already provide health care for the poor. Yet, previously he had used the ER as an example of poor health care decisions. In the debate, he again acted like there were provisions of ACA that he would preserve.

I've never heard him say that they opposed all the provisions of Obamacare. I followed the Republican primaries closely (I'm a registered Republican), and what I heard was that they agreed with some of the provisions, but the law as presently constituted had to go. I personally don't believe anyone will be able to repeal the law, so it's kind of a moot point. But what I've heard consistently is that there are some things Romney likes about Obamacare.

As for the ER, my understanding was that he was saying that we do care for the poor, albeit in one of the least-efficient ways possible. It's like saying that filling the Gulf of Mexico with tapioca would take care of the BP oil spill, but there are better ways of doing it.